Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways, naked, drunk and on fire screaming YEEHAAW ! . . . .

But funny . . . . Just imagine coming off the back of a two week sunshine hol to fly home with said airline

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways, naked, drunk and on fire screaming YEEHAAW ! . . . .

Windows 8 is just awful! I bougght a brand new PC this week and made sure it had Windows 7. I have heard that PC sales have really dropped since Windows 8 was introduced. I suspect it makes a bit more sense if you use a tablet or Smart Phone, but for every day computing it sucks!

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal

Similar experience here Tony. Microsoft really blundered by doing away with the start menu, which makes Win 8 really frustrating to use for anyone familiar with earlier versions, in a perfect demonstration of how to alienate a customer base. In the end, I installed a 3rd party start menu utility (Pokki I think), which has taken most of the pain away.

In many ways it's a superior product: there are some performance improvements under the hood, and plenty of decent free apps in the store. However, the Metro interface works poorly without a touchscreen, and the old desktop is painful to use unless you can teach yourself lots of keyboard shortcuts, or install a 3rd party tool.

One thing I noticed on my friends new comp that has win 8, alot of the text, especially online, is lighter. like a light blue or grey and makes reading certain site a pain. and this is the same in IE and firefox. and check boxes are nearly impossible to see.

"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."